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Lord Winter's damage resistance is now an even 70% v. all types. (Although, I've seen players' -DamResistance stack up and take that into the negatives -- debuffers are your friends.) [In previous Test sessions, his Resistance was higher, especially v. Cold.]
He's got Mag 100 Protection against all mezzes except Sleep, Taunt, Placate, Immob, and TP. (I'm assuming he's also easily Black Holed, like most GMs, but your fellow players will take a very dim view of you doing extra phasing to him.) His Resistance to Taunt is 100% (50% duration) and his range was debuffed by 75% when Taunted.
He has an 85% Resistance to these debuffs: -Regen; -Recovery; -ToHit; -Defense. And he has 10,0085% Resistance to -Recharge!
He has 14.05% Defense bonus v. all damage types except Psionic (Engergy Absorbtion power) and no Positional Defense bonuses (other than what comes naturally to a Giant Monster). Player debuffs stack and regularly take his Defense bonuses into the negatives.
No speed buffs.
ToHit Bonus of 50% and Accuracy of 1.5x. And yet, I saw at one point his "Last Hit Chance" be 7.5%, meaning that someone had a high enough Defense or he had enough -ToHit Debuff, or both, to floor his final ToHit roll (capped at 5% with the 1.5x Accuracy bonus applied after the fact).
He has 226,173.39 HP and a regen rate of .05% (113.09 hp/sec).
He has 800 Endurance and a recovery rate of 1.67% (13.34 end/sec).
Perception: 54 ft.
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Quote:For everyone in the *zone*, they get a floater text flash that says a Winter Lord has spawned and another floater text that a Present has been left.Originally Posted by Texarkana
Other than that, I bugged the fact that the message "Winter Lord drops a present" doesn't seem to show up in any of the chat channels (that i had on anyway) and to check it. It jsut blew by so fast the first time I got it, and occured in Skyway, that I was left a bit confused before hopping to Talos where I could see it in action with more people.
This may be intentional on the part of the devs to not make this a server-wide event that draws in a hundred players at once (at least on Freedom and Virtue that can easily happen) causing multiple instances of the Lord Winter Realm to spawn, but instead something for just a zone or two teams to take on with just one Realm instance.
The Deadly Apocalypse easily scaled up for eight teams at once, so a server-wide message wasn't a problem. The way that this event is structured, eight teams would make the event trivially easy.
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Quote:The Northern Lights phase when Lord Winter phases, only the NL cheat: They can still attack while phased but can't be hit. When LW unphases, the NLs unphase too and are attackable and killable again.Originally Posted by Chyll
You can kill them [Northern Lights], and they aren't all that tough (big punch, weak shell... think blaster). Hard to target the little wigglers without tab key, though.
It's a 'feature' of the event that Lord Winter's Realm is instanced into something like a normal city zone that anyone can enter. Once the Realm is instanced, as long as it is 'up', any other group, whether heroside or villainside, that spawn a Portal-Present will enter into that same Realm, even if the battle with the Lord Winter is almost over.Quote:Originally Posted by Defcon_Kid
My full 8-people team was about to start a Tarikoss SF in Cap au Diable Defiant when we read that there was a big pressie there, we touched it and were sent to the LW Realm, where there were more people gathering for fighting him. He went down in just a few minutes, and we get both merits and canes, BUT no badge at all. It was pretty weird, as NONE of the team got it, but we thought that it was related to the fact that it was a "teaser" of the real Event, but some friends of mine did earn the badge in Union, that's when I petitioned.
Yes, that can be a disappointment, but it can also be an opportunity, if players coordinate it correctly, to create a Co-Op Lord Winter battle.
Also, if there are too many players for the Realm's maximum capacity, then a second (and third and fourth...) Lord Winter Realm will spawn. You can then use the portal in the Realm (it's a cave door) to switch between Realm instances. The message from the Devs says that the purpose of this zone portal is so that teams that wind up in different instances can join back up, but I'm sure the players will find ways to abuse and exploit the zone portal.
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Quote:No.Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
Do you get merits if you do the cape mission thorugh Ouro?
Don't think so. You can't sneak lowbies on Ouro missions if they're below the minimum level (a product of TF-mode).Quote:Originally Posted by Tally
Soooo..... a level 50..... can team with a level 10 say....grab the mission from a Piller.......run it...... and the level 10 gets a cape?
But I wonder if a level 20 doing it for the first time can sneak in a level 1 to get that level 1 a cape... hmm....
Or how about this: Capes are available from level 1, but this special mission unlocks a special cape, let's say Hero 1's Union Jack cape (we know players can equip it since it was equipable as a bug once on Test).Quote:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Not necessarily go away, but just not have capes tied behind it. I actually rather enjoy the mission, itself, and I would hate to see it removed from the game. But, yeah, tying capes behind it was unnecessary and unproductive. -
I thought the same thing too, one time.
Then I realized that some zones had greener trees than others. And if you go from a green-tree-zone to a fall-color-tree-zone you get the impression of a seasonal change.
But the green tree zones are always green and the fall color tree zones are always fall colors. -
They couldn't have changed the mission! I have it on good authority from many a poster in these forums who typed in fuming bile that the Devs were lazy and only gave us crappy letters on the occasion of the opening of the time capsule and not any in-game content.
Nope. This changed mission didn't happen. How could they be so wrong???
BTW, if you want a cape at level one and you're not using a female model, get the Magic Booster. You can have a high collared cape at level one with *any* cape attached to it. See here. -
Quote:We really need to come up with a better naming convention than signature and non-signature.Originally Posted by Catwhoorg
OK there are two types of TF
'Signature TFs' and 'non-signature TFs'
1. It's just wrong. Signature means 'named' and Moonfire or Imperious are names and have eponymous TFs just like Positron and Synapse. The name 'Signature' came about to differentiate the Freedom Phalanx TFs from the non-named respec trials, which were scalable in level. But since then, 'signature' TFs have been added that are not hard coded levels, but scalable, just like the trials.
2. The name doesn't describe the feature it supposed to refer to. 'Signature' tells one nothing about the level of the TF. Other naming conventions like "Hard Coded" and "Scalable" would be more descriptive names for the leveling mechanic of TFs. -
With the downhill course (Expert Slope) I can easily get Gold with Ninja Run and Sprint on a level 50.
With that same level 50 on the Advanced Slop (the toboggan - bobsled - skelton - luge track), I tried these two tactics (since I didn't have SuperJump):
- Ninja Run + Sprint + Run Empowerment + Jump Empowerment + Accelerated Metabolism
- SuperSpeed + Sprint + Run Empowerment + Jump Empowerment + Accelerated Metabolism
And even running a perfect course (no bumping or stalls), I couldn't break the 53 second barrier.
Then, when someone gave me Inertial Reduction, got the Gold on the Advanced Course.
Lesson: If you don't have SuperJump or IR, you're not getting the Advanced Slope Gold. -
Quote:scooped!Originally Posted by TheRook
On this day, the 1st day of December, I, The Rook, have looked deep into the winter winds for answers. I have watched the patterns of the snow flakes falling. I have observed for hours the activity of the woodland creatures both large and small. I have done all this to divine the answer to a not so simple question.
The question? When will the 2009 Winter Event go live for City of Heroes?
The answer? I predict that we will see the Winter Event go live for all to enjoy on Monday, December 14th at noon!!
Mark my words and grab your snow gear!
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Quote:13 previous ones related to logging in, old jingle jet mission, and BNY missions.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
2 new ones is fine
Don't forget, for new players, there's a lot of winter event badges to get
plus 6 Ski run badges.
plus 1 Ski Chalet exploration badge.
plus villains can get the Red Cap and Tuatha defeat badges in the BNY missions. -
Quote:I just did a BNY mission on a level 50 at diff lev -1. They were all level 49 Winter Horde. Outside the cave, inside the cave, and the ones that spawned after SnapTooth is defeated.Originally Posted by Ms. Mesmer
I noticed that some of the Winter Horde in the BNY mission are normal ones and some are level-less. That's kind of strange. The ones that are level-less don't count toward the Cold Warrior badge, this is both the ones in the BNY mission and the ones in Lord Winter's Realm.
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Here's the list of the Candy Creeper's wares as seen by a brand new level 1 hero:
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All the Winter Horde now have a chance to drop Candy Canes as a salvage drop.
And they drop normal arcane salvage too. Good reason to hunt the horde in your level range. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
Sneak Preview: Dev Speak for "We think we got this wrong and need a shed load of extra testing before it goes live.Sneak Preview: Dev Speak for "Even with moving the Test window to the evening, we barely got enough players to test the Winter Event the third time around and probably won't get enough the fourth time unless we test it on the Live Servers, and maybe this will appease the EU players... (looks up in the thread...) ... or maybe not."Quote:Originally Posted by Suspicious_Pkg
Sneak Preview: Dev Speak for "Oops this accidentally went live with today's patch."
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Quote:Will need a screen cap of the WL's hp or combat attributes to show that this is not an ordinary GM, which the WLs on Test have been. Because, if this is just the same GM that was on Test and the same basic stats of every other GM, then the problem was with your team and not a bug.Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
Sneak Preview: Dev Speak for "We think we got this wrong and need a shed load of extra testing before it goes live.
Team of 7 Damage dealers plus a tank not even denting the Winter Lord in Talos? Hmmmmmmmmm I think not WAI.
Edited to add I think this is a nicely different event thus far but:
Enemies too hard and, the entrance graphic reminded me of old photos of Auschwitz. Chilling in more than one sense. Seriously
There are some teams that can handle a GM and some that can't. GMs were specifically designed to require more than one team and the uber-GM of the Lord Winter will require more than one team... it's working as designed. A complaint that one team can't take down a GM is a non-starter. That's just the way it is. -
Asking to join a team, when looked at in isolation, would seem to be an insignificant event.
However, when you're on a TF and everyone on your team is hit with a dozen requests to join your team, then it is a real annoyance. And that's why you'll get the rude 'buzz off' reply, because that person got hit with many such unwanted requests.
A sociology experiment that was done to determine if people in the southern parts of the U.S. were nicer than their northern counterparts had experimenters go up to strangers on the street to ask for the time or directions. When done in isolation, the strangers were very cordial and cooperative. When the experimenters set themselves up to target the same person several times as they walked down the street, then the famous southern hospitality soon went by the wayside by the third or fifth interruption in their routine. The lesson is that people have a limit to friendly requests.
That said, when I get a request to join my team, I tell them I'm on a TF. Then I promptly put myself on 'hide from searches.' End of problem. -
Quote:You mean like updating avatars now that Halloween and Thanksgiving are over?Originally Posted by Shadow Wail
...so with the capsule being opened and nothing worth mentioning released... can we finally move foward?
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Quote:I don't remember that statement being made...Originally Posted by Ironblade
The devs already said that GR will not have an issue number associated with it.
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Check out who I'm following on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Zombie_Man
Follow them and you'll hear more about the Devs. More than you'll care to learn. (Sorry, War Witch, had to unfollow you since you were *too* tweetery for me!
And Bruce is close to being unfollowed for the same reason. )
Besides, only BAB and Posi and the Community account drop the juicy bits about the game. -
The normal AV Pink Triangles of Doom resistance doesn't include Damage Debuff resistance (though they do include ToHit Debuff Resistance). Darkest Night has saved many a Tanker hit by the damage from Ghost Widow's ultra hold which normally has enough damage to one shot over time a Tanker.
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The links in my sig might help ya.
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Quote:You're basing that by *averaging* which doesn't account for the extremes.Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade
16 issues in 5 years says roughly 1 per quarter with a few extras. I expect at least one more Issue before GR.
The shortest wait between issues was 57 days (Issue 6) and the longest was 222 days (Issue 7).
Let's say they get GR ready for the 6th anniversary on Wednesday, Apr 28, 2010. That will be a 225 day wait between issues -- only three days longer than the wait for Issue 7.
Posi said they already are working on I18 (i.e., the one after GR... *if* there is a mini-issue I17 before GR, then that will be I19). So, I don't expect that after GR comes out that there will be a full four months before the next Issue. -
Quote:Pocket D-Cup.Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin
This one ranks pretty up there... the praetorian version of Ms. Liberty comes to earth and decides to take
up pole danceing at a local strip club, (or maybe it was Pocket D) much to the chagrin of her counterpart.
That's when the in-house comic went from being horribly drawn to whoribly drawn. -
Quote:And do you promise not to complain if there is an Issue 17 before GR and you find it's a very, very small issue?Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim
I really hope I17 comes out before GR. I'm excited about GR and all, but if I have to wait until 2nd quarter for another issue after I16... that's way too long. And I think it would be a bad plan on the dev's part. That's a long time to wait.
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In the folder mentioned above only when in the 3D environment of the game. The character screen (at the tailor's), however, doesn't create a file automatically when you hit printscreen. It goes into the clipboard and then you'll have to paste it into some other program and save it from that program.
See here: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Screenshot